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Let the Bells Keep Ringing

"'W hat will this day be like?' I wonder.   'What will my future be?' I wonder.   It could be so exciting to be out in the world, to be free.   My heart should be wildly rejoicing . Oh, what's the matter with me?...." L ast week, I had to face a day that I had hardly pondered becoming a reality: I announced that I was stepping down from directing the New Hanover JuBELLees--the bell choir that I have directed for seven seasons. A week later, there's a part of me that's still throwing up inside over having made that decision, even though I know it was the decision that I was supposed to make. I had come to the determination a number of weeks ago. It was a troubling feeling. I had felt I lost my passion for what I was doing. Not that I didn't love handbells. This is my lifelong instrument--the only one I've been able to play with any real success. Not that I didn't want a handbell ministry to continue through my church.